KNOWING YOUR BODY

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By Charl Marais

(BSc Biochemistry & Physiology PU vir CHO,

Herbalism & Basic Healthcare and Diet and Nutrition, Mensana)

 We are currently experiencing disturbing changes in the general disease patterns.  General statistics reveal alarming deterioration in man’s general health status. The external factors involved are overpopulation, smoking, alcoholism, malnutrition, sexual misbehaviour, high and excessive stress and pollution. This leads to environmental health diseases that result from outside factors and are currently called LIFE STYLE DISEASES.

The distributor wants better looking, and longer lasting fruit and vegetables – thus it’s been manipulated to look better, stay fresh longer because of less nutritional value due of genetic manipulation. Buying fruit and vegetables what are you looking for – those with no marks good looking, with no signs of insects. If that is the case you are feeding your body with non good nutritional value food.

The role of such important factors as diet in cancer and heart disease has been obscured by the emphasis on the treatment of these diseases through the miracles of modern medicine.

Before 1929 coronary heart diseases was indeed rare since 1929 to 1963 there was a twelve fold increase in the USA alone. From 2,6 in 10,000 to 30,7 in 10,000. Life style diseases include AIDS, cancer, atherosclerotic heart diseases (coronary heart diseases or CHD), diabetes mellitus type II, obesity, osteoporosis, hormone disturbances, strokes and brain blood vessel lesions, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME), deep venous thrombosis, Alzheimer’s disease, carbohydrate craving syndrome (hypoglycaemia), mitral valve prolaps, Tourette’s syndrome, acne, Parkinson’s disease, tooth decay, and gout.

Living in a toxic world. The number one plastic surgery under men (age 18 to 34) currently in the USA is breast reduction due to chemical pollution. It’s been found that little girls have breast development even in grade 1 and 2 (age 6 to 8). All this because of pesticides we as humans are using to have good looking and/or fast growing food on the table.

This created the situation of “If feeling ill take a pill”. The highest consumption of drugs are in the age group 3 to 6 years. Personal health where placed in the hands of the Health Care Professional as caregiver. This again opens the opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to take over the educational role with the focus being on “Treat the symptoms”.  Health Care Professionals do not have time to run a holistic approach practise. The result by being educated by the pharmaceutical industry is to “go from the inside out instead of from the outside in”. Thus the Health Care Professional finds out what are the symptoms and treat the symptoms. The result – we do not take responsibility for our own health but it was left in the hands of the Health Care Professional.

As a nation we have come to believe that medicine can solve our major health problems. Treatment, not prevention, has been the order of the day – the problem can never be solved merely by more and more medical care. Treatment for cancer has remained the same since the 1970’s – Cut, Burn, or Chemically destroy it.. Cancer just overtook Heart Disease as the no 1 cause of death in America.

Today however, we find that more and more people and families are asking;

o   Why are our families getting sick in the first place?

o   How can we protect our family from disease?

o   How can the cause of the problem be addressed and not just the symptoms?

However a discovery was made which explain all the questions above

The discovery of cell to cell communication in the body has given meaning to the words of Paracelsus (1483 – 1541) “All that man needs for good health and healing is provided by God in nature; the challenge to science is to find it.”

Research began in the 1970’s with Aloe Vera Plant – Dr McAnally to find the healing agent in the plant. In 1981, Mannose was identified.

Lehninger’s Biochemistry handbook 1972 (p 236-237) refers to “Glycoprotein’s are presumably present in the outer layer of the plasma membrane. Their structures are not yet known in detail . In one class of glycoprotein’s, serine residues in the peptide chain are linked in glycosidic bonds to oligosaccharides containing N-acetyl-D-galactosamine residues, which terminate in N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) residues” It also mention that N-acetyl-galactosamine are major structural components of cartilage, bone, cornea and other connective tissue structures in vertebrates.

Guyton & Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology 10 th edition (p 10 – 12) refers to “Membrane Carbohydrates – The cell “Glycocalyx”. Membrane carbohydrates occur almost invariably in combination with proteins or lipids in the form of glycoprotein’s or glycolipids. …. Many of the carbohydrates act as receptor substances for binding of hormones which activate intracellular enzymes. Some enter into immune reactions.”

Monosaccharides attached to proteins at the cell surface are identified as 8 “essential sugars” or monosaccharides of varying patterns which make up the cells identity. If even one of these is missing, then cellular communication is disrupted. We either get them from our diets or our bodies must be able to manufacture them from absorbed precursors. Currently only 2 of the monosaccharides are currently present in our daily diet. (Glucose and Galactose). The other 6 must be manufactured from these; this can take from 9 to 36 enzymatic reactions which require a lot of energy.

Surface carbohydrates on a cell serve as points of attachments, identification and communication for other cells, infectious bacteria, viruses, toxins, hormones and many other molecules.

The basic 5 Body Systems and Requirements

1. COMMUNICATION – 8 essential monosaccharides (sugars) (Glucose, Galactose, Mannose, Fucose, Xylose, N-Acetylglucosamine, N-Acetylgalatosamine and N-Acetylneuraminic acid (NANA)
2. DEFENCE & REPAIR – Antioxidants Phytonutrients and glutathione
3. REGULATION – 87 hormones, 17 sex and reproductive
4. NUTRITION – feeds cell, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements.
5. DIGESTION –  Enzymes

Attack on Healthy cells

Disease is a process that can takes years to develop before you even experience “symptoms”. A symptom is the secondary effect of a primary problem communicated by the body.

Your body is under attack 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by bacteria, viruses, toxins – antigens of all kinds, which are trying to destroy you.

Your body deals with up to 10,000 hits on every cell in your body by free radicals on a daily basis. This increase drastically during chemotherapy

 How does our Immune system work?

It consists of 2 vital components:

1.       The Innate System – Locates and identifies normal cells, abnormal cells and pathogens in the body. Through a process of ‘Phagocytosis’ it identifies and latches on to the pathogen or abnormal cell, engulfs it, destroys it, and/or sends out chemical messages to the Adaptive System for destruction and /or repair.

2.       The Acquired Immunity (Adaptive) System – Can be active or passive.

Active immunity appears after exposure to an antigen, as a consequence of the immune response. It may develop as a result of natural exposure to an antigen in the environment (Natural acquired immunity) or from deliberate exposure to an antigen (induced active immunity).

Passive immunity is produced by the transfer of antibodies from another individual. Natural passive immunity results when antibodies produced by the mother protect her baby against infections during development (across placenta) or in early infancy (through breast milk). In Induced passive immunity, antibodies are administered to fight infection or prevent disease. For example, antibodies that attack the rabies virus are injected into a person bitten by a rabid animal.

 Immune response

The purpose of the immune response is to destroy or inactivate pathogens (sickness - malaria), abnormal cells (cancer cells), and foreign molecules such as toxins.

T–Cells respond to the physical or chemical attack messages and

communicate through glycoproteins on cell surfaces, and send 

messages to the B–cells to produce antibodies to destroy the 

pathogen or abnormal cells, or send messages to the immune

command centre to repair the defective cell.

                                                                                       Figure and info from “Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology” Third edition

 Membrane receptors are called Major Histocompatibility Complex proteins (MHC) and are grouped into 2 classes;

–        Class 1 MHC are found on the surfaces of all of our cells. These proteins bind small peptide molecules (chains of amino acids – monosaccharides or glycoproteins) that are normally produced in the cell and carried to the cell membrane. If the cell is healthy and the peptides are normal the T-cells will ignore them. If the cell contains abnormal or viral or bacterial peptides, they will appear in the cell membrane and the T-cells will be activated. This activation will lead to destruction of the abnormal or infected cells.

–        Class II MHC proteins are found only in the membranes of lymphocytes and phagocytic antigen-presenting cells (APCs).  APC cells can be found in free and fixed macrophages in connective tissue, macrophages in the liver (Kupffer cells) and central nervous system. They are specialized cells to active T cells against foreign cells (inclusive of bacteria) and foreign proteins. Fragments of the foreign antigens are displayed on their cell surfaces, bound to class II MHC proteins. T cells that contact this APC macrophage membrane become activated, initiating an immune response.

 Thus communication  = repair

 Your options to choose;

 Today we have science to show that adding Glyconutritionals can correct a number of these congenital defects.  It is important to understand that these products does not heal medicate or treat. It is giving the body the ingredients to function effectively, as discussed.  

 Cells in your body are constantly being born and dying.  Life Spans of Some Cells of the Human Body

 The life span of cells can give you an indication of the time needed by your body to correct specific problem areas with the correct supplementation. 

We cannot predict or prescribe which cells will receive their full, necessary complement of mono-sacharides (glyconutrients), nor can we predict how many will get the glyconutrients they need. In order for your body to do what it is designed to do for your health, it must have the tools it was designed to have.      

This discovery of how cells communicate was a disruptive technology that is predicted to help trigger a one trillion Dollar shift from the Sickness Industry into a new Wellness Industry within the next 10 years.

The wellness Revolution has began – meaning that each person will take back the responsibility for there own health with a more holistic approach.

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